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  • A Temporary Throne – 5

    A Temporary Throne – 5

    CHAPTER 5

    SUM, ERGO SUM, ROGER!

    I lay there in awe and wonderment! I immediately understood the WORD the LORD had spoken to me.

    Latin: From former thoughts of a man, who after doubting the existence of every man from the beginning of time and questioning everything of God’s Creation had concluded in his own thinking: “I think; therefore, I am.”

    I had been wondering how real my experience was. I had thought: Is this real? Or is this only a dream?

    That was the point of life to which the philosopher had reasoned himself. The thinker’s conclusion was that man exists with certainty, because man can certainly think.

    When Moses had encountered God in the burning bush that was not consumed, it did not make sense (to a created man). When Moses later asked God how to explain who God IS to Israel, this was God’s reply:

    Exodus 3:14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.”

    I knew (if I know anything at all) that some translations of the Bible read: “I AM THAT I AM,” in Hebrew literally, “hayah hayah.”

    Yĕhovah ‘elohiym THE LORD GOD had spoken to me saying:

    I AM, THEREFORE I AM, ROGER.

    And for His MOST PERSONAL purpose, THE LORD GOD had addressed HIS NAME to me personally!

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • A Temporary Throne – 4

    A Temporary Throne – 4

    CHAPTER 4

    PRAYER SPEAKS TO GOD: person to PERSON.

    After my reply, “Here I am, Lord,” I remembered:

    The purpose of a PRAYER of Samuel’s mother Hannah had been to glorify God — as had been the purpose of a latter prayer from a just announced virgin mother-to-be of the Son of Man.

    Samuel 2: And Hannah prayed and said:
    “My heart rejoices in the Lord;
    My horn [strength] is exalted in the Lord.
    6 “The Lord kills and makes alive;
    He brings down to the grave and brings up.
    8 He raises the poor from the dust
    And lifts the beggar from the ash heap,
    To set them among princes
    And make them inherit the throne of glory.

    Here I lay, in a conversation with the LORD MOST HIGH, which THE LORD had initiated. I gave the ONLY answer I knew: the answer of obedience.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

     

  • A Temporary Throne – 3

    A Temporary Throne – 3

    CHAPTER 3

    ROGER!

    THE LORD GOD MOST HIGH spoke my name (as if HE knew me personally)!

    Of course — (I had not really grasped the significance of this on earth) – Of course our CREATOR knows us by name. I recalled:

    Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

    I also recalled the words of John:

    Revelation 10:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet, 11 saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,”

    I answered in my humblest confidence, “Here I am, LORD,”

    I remembered it from the first experience of the Prophet Samuel, when the Lord spoke to him on earth.

    1 Samuel 3:9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down; and it shall be, if He calls you, that you must say, ‘Speak, Lord, for Your servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

    To be continued…

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.